Texas Women Have Their Day in Court: Zurawski v. The State of Texas
By KITTY DOUGLAS | BIGTENTUSA “I cannot adequately put in to words the trauma and despair that comes from waiting to either lose your own life, your child’s life or […]
Three Southern States: Three Deadly Serious Challenges
By JAY KUO | THE STATUS KUO Three stories caught my attention, all situated in the South, all raising deep and troubling questions about state overreach, the rejection of core […]
The Extreme Right is Working to Erase LGBTQ+ People from Public Life and Keep it That Way
By WENDY ROGOVIN | BIGTENTUSA Over 725 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced this year. The flood of anti-LGBTQ+ law-making is all part of a coordinated attack, the goal of which […]
Ohio Doubles Ballot Measure Signatures for Repro Rights
News from Ohio, courtesy of The Fairness Project On July 5, a non-partisan, grassroots coalition in Ohio submitted more than 700,000 signatures from state residents in all 88 counties in […]
Changing How We Talk About the Court
By, STEPHEN VLADECK | THE SHADOW DOCKET I’m so excited to get to chat with my friend Dahlia Lithwick about the Supreme Court and my new book […]
The Supreme Court: Light and Shadows
By Dahlia Lithwick It’s always a treat to be in conversation with Steve Vladeck and especially powerful to be talking about his amazing new book, Shadow Docket, which […]
The Science of Winning with Stories: Using Agency, Urgency, and Community
By Gretchen Barton The science of the mind has revealed much in recent years about how to achieve persuasion and mobilization among voters. It’s time to use what’s actually been […]
Larry Diamond’s 12-step Program to Preserve Democracy
The global socio-political landscape is undergoing significant shifts, driven by technology advancements, climate change, economic disparities, the struggle for human rights and the challenge of maintaining democratic norms amidst rising […]
How did we get here?
By: Evangeline Morphos Political analysts, historians, journalists, and political leaders are defining our present moment as a turning point in our democracy. Are we in fact abandoning our founding principles […]
Turbocharging student voters
By Maxim Thorne, CEO, Civic Influencers At Civic Influencers, we are succeeding in turning out young voters that can swing elections. The right knows and fears our work—and they’re freaking […]
(No!) to the Dark Money No-Labels Party
Remember that sinking feeling when you realized Woody Allen wasn’t the lovable loser you thought he was? Well, get ready for another rude awakening. What’s The Issue: No Labels, the so-called […]
Navigating The Past To Understand the Present
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana A significant number of far-right US political leaders are whitewashing and re-writing history by banning books and any discussion of […]
Not So Proud: Seditious Conspiracy
Four Proud Boys and four Oath Keepers have been convicted of seditious conspiracy for the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol. The last time anyone was convicted of seditious […]
Ballot Measures, Big Bucks
Getting an Initiative on the Ballot is Getting More Expensive. Everything is more expensive these days (read: inflation) – and that includes ballot initiatives. Campaigns for ballot initiatives often spend hundreds […]
Bucking democracy in Ohio
Welcome to the new Ohio, where the state legislature has become an increasingly frightening and powerful laboratory for autocracy. To start, on January 6th, 2023 (of all the dates!) Ohio’s […]